Allina Health, Benedictine Health System and Presbyterian Homes & Services to Collaborate on Transitional Care Centers

MINNEAPOLIS--()--Allina Health, Benedictine Health System (BHS) and Presbyterian Homes & Services (PHS) have agreed to work together to create a new generation of transitional care that will provide post-acute care patients with a clinically advanced yet soothing environment in which to transition from hospital to home. This collaboration brings together the expertise of organizations that provide hospital-based acute care with the experience of organizations skilled in managing in-patient rehabilitation and transitional care services to create a clinically-integrated, patient-centered transitional care experience for the communities it will serve.

Together the three organizations will create a consistent model and care philosophy for the future of transitional care with the goal of making branded centers available to franchise operators. Focused on hospitality, wellness and service delivered in a resort, spa-like environment; these centers will specialize in customized, high-quality, technologically advanced rehabilitation and recovery programs designed to reach optimal levels of individual health and ability. A smooth transition back to home is the goal for each guest.

The first two of these next-generation transitional care centers are in the planning stages. The first will be a BHS-managed center on the campus of Unity Hospital in Fridley, part of Allina Health. The next will be a PHS -managed center on the campus of Abbott Northwestern’s WestHealth, also part of Allina Health.

“As health care reform moves forward our communities will need new approaches to ensuring that after people leave the hospital they receive the care they need to make a successful transition back home and don’t end up back in the hospital,” said Kenneth H. Paulus, president and chief executive officer of Allina Health. “By bringing together the acute care and rehabilitation expertise of our three organizations, we will be able to forge new paths that ease the transition from hospital to home.”

“We are pleased to be partnering with two organizations - equally committed as BHS - to the three aims of health care reform: better health, better health care and lower cost,” said Dale Thompson, president and chief executive officer, Benedictine Health System. “By focusing our collective effort on the needs of the patients in these newly designed settings, we can enhance the care and healing of each person we have the opportunity to serve.”

“This innovative collaboration is designed to more effectively meet community needs now and in the future,” said Daniel Lindh, CEO of Presbyterian Homes & Services. “Our concept integrates services in new ways that will reduce unnecessary hospitalizations, return hospitalizations, and increase better transitions to home. Each partnering organization brings expertise and resources that together will result in better outcomes and an improved customer experience.”

About Allina Health

Allina Health is dedicated to the prevention and treatment of illness and enhancing the greater health of individuals, families and communities throughout Minnesota and western Wisconsin. A not-for-profit health care system, Allina Health cares for patients from beginning to end-of-life through its 90+ clinics, 11 hospitals, 15 pharmacies, specialty care centers and specialty medical services that provide hospice care, oxygen and home medical equipment, and emergency medical transportation services. Learn more at allinahealth.org.

Benedictine Health System

The Benedictine Health System is a Catholic, non-profit long- term care health system based in Duluth, Minn., sponsored by the Benedictine Sisters of St. Scholastica Monastery, Duluth. BHS has served the health care needs of aging adults through the services of its short-term care and rehabilitation centers, long-term care centers and assisted and independent housing in Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin for over 26 years. Additional information may be found at www.bhshealth.org.

About Presbyterian Homes & Services

Presbyterian Homes & Services, based in St. Paul, Minnesota, is a non-profit, faith-based organization providing a broad array of high quality housing choices, care and service options for older adults. 5,400 employees serve over 21,000 older adults through 40 PHS-affiliated senior living communities in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa. Established in 1955, PHS has earned the reputation as an innovative leader concerned with promoting independence, vitality and well-being for those they serve. Learn more at preshomes.org.

Contacts

Allina Health
Gloria O'Connell, 612-863-4801
gloria.oconnell@allina.com

Release Summary

Leaving the hospital but not ready to go home, patients in Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area will have new kind of healing environments in which to recover.

Contacts

Allina Health
Gloria O'Connell, 612-863-4801
gloria.oconnell@allina.com